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More Chinese people live in New York City than in any other city outside of Asia. More Jewish people live here than in any other city outside of Israel.

The first bank card, named “Charg-It,” was introduced in 1946 in Brooklyn by banker John Biggins.

The United Nations headquarters was established in New York City in 1952 after World War II.

Sam Schapiro began the Kosher wine industry on New York's Lower East side with their famous extra heavy original concord wine in 1899

The first American chess tournament was held in New York in 1843.

Oysters were so popular in New York in the 19th Century that their shells were used to pave Pearl Street. They were also used for lime for the masonry of the Trinity Church.

The New York Public Library has over 50 million books and other items and is the second largest library system in the nation after the Library of Congress. It is also the third largest library in the world.

The Empire State building has its own zip code.

There is a secret train platform in the Waldorf Astoria hotel.

UPS, FedEx, and other commercial delivery companies receive up to 7,000 parking tickets a DAY, contributing up to $120 million in revenue for the City of New York.

More than 800 languages are spoken in New York City, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. Four in 10 NYC households speak a language other than English.

Pinball was banned in New York City until 1978. In the past, the NYPD even used to organize "Prohibition-style” busts to enforce the ban!

Gennaro Lombardi opened the first United States pizzeria in 1895 in New York City.

A Brooklyn shopkeeper named Morris Michtom and his wife Rose are credited with inventing the teddy bear.

France gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States in 1886 for its Centennial celebration. The statue was shipped as 350 pieces in 214 crates and took 4 months to assemble at its current home on Ellis Island.

On 9/11, when all transport out of the city was shut down, citizen boat owners managed to transport over 500k people from Manhattan Island in an amazing act of selflessness and camaraderie known as the “9/11 Boatlift.”

Albert Einstein's eyeballs are stored in a safe deposit box in New York City.

In 2010, 38% of all 911 calls in NYC were butt dials.

Central Park, which opened to the public in 1858, became the first landscaped public park in an American city.

There are more undergrad and graduate students in NYC than Boston has people.

Twizzlers candy was developed by the National Licorice Company in Brooklyn in 1845.

There's a wind tunnel near the Flat Iron building that can raise women's skirts. In the not-so-distant past, men used to gather outside of the building to feast their eyes on the effect.

A little over 8 million people live in New York City. That means 1 in every 38 people in the United States calls NYC - home.

The Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan is the only school in the world offering a Bachelor of Science Degree with a Major in Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing.

Times Square is named after the New York Times. It was originally called Longacre Square until The Times moved there in 1904.

In 1922, there was a Straw Hat Riot. It was an unofficial rule in NYC that straw hats weren't allowed to be worn past Sept. 15, but some unruly kids started snatching people's hats a few days before that, causing an uprising that lasted a few days.

In 1884, in order to prove that the Brooklyn Bridge was stable, P.T. Barnum led 21 elephants over it.

In NYC, there was one homicide on 9/11, and it remains unsolved.

The first capital of the United States was New York City. In 1789 George Washington took his oath as President on the balcony at Federal Hall.

In 1975, the City of New York sold a private island in the East River for $10.

The narrowest house in NYC is in the West Village: 75 1/2 Bedford Street is just over 9 feet wide.

The first daily Yiddish newspaper appeared in 1885 in New York City.

The "New York Post" established in 1803 by Alexander Hamilton is the oldest running newspaper in the United States.

On November 28, 2012, not a single murder, shooting, stabbing, or other incident of violent crime was reported in NYC for an entire day. The first time… in… basically… ever.

There is a birth in New York City every 4.4 minutes.

New York City's 520-mile coastline is longer than those of Miami, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco combined.

In 1920, a horse-drawn carriage filled with explosives was detonated on Wall Street killing 30 people. No one was ever caught, but the event is considered to be one of the first ever acts of domestic terrorism.

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